Rise of the Argentine Empire

Lingang Industrial Zone, the canteen of the Rein Machinery Factory.

Actually, Saint Herse had been hiding in the Blanca Port Industrial Zone recently.

He was still shaken by an accident a few days ago.

Natalie, the current deputy editor of the Capital New A Newspaper, suddenly arrived in Blanca City. If Saint Herse hadn't used all his skills to coax and deceive her, he wouldn't have been able to trick Natalie back to Buenos Aires.

"I didn't expect my charm to be so great."

The two stayed in a villa in the suburbs for one night, and then Saint Herse, feeling guilty, stayed in the Lingang Industrial Zone under the pretext of work, not wanting to see Elena.

In fact, Rosa from Barron Bank and Mesander from Sunshine Agriculture seemed to be devoted to him,

which made him a little helpless.

"Alas, this damn charm."

Saint Herse took a sip of water and continued his work.

The weather was slightly sunny today.

Recently, the national demand for briquette stoves has exploded, and this machinery factory has also chosen to expand its recruitment to cope with the sudden surge in orders.

Rein Machinery Factory suddenly added 15 dedicated factory buildings, which is not a big problem. The Lingang Industrial Zone has enough reserve factory buildings.

In addition, 3,000 workers were specially recruited to manage and form efficiency.

Saint Herse appointed Don Miguel as the director of the machinery factory, who is also his deputy this time, responsible for factory management and also the project management this time.

Don Miguel was brought by Saint Herse from the Propaganda Department of the Radical Party, and showed outstanding management talent in the Investment Promotion Department.

He is a dual talent in propaganda and management. If he performs well this time, Saint Herse will send Don Miguel to work in the factory of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

This is a challenge for the management of the Blanca Machinery Factory, which is still in its initial stage, and it is almost an impossible task.

Saint Herse had to bring some people from the City Hall to the machinery factory to work on-site and direct the operation.

Argentina needs at least 800,000 sets of briquette tools, and can even export them. It simply cannot produce enough, and Rein Machinery Factory has also started some outsourcing work.

This little thing has a high profit, so you can earn a sum.

Moreover, it is also convenient to change to other production in the future. Many machine tools can be used, which is why Saint Herse is willing to invest.

Most of the accessories for the stove can be replaced with other materials, while the iron for pressing briquettes can only be transferred from La Plata, small steel pipes.

In addition, the stamping and die-casting production machine tools and other simple production machines and welding tools produced by the Capital Machinery Factory are also transported by train.

Saint Herse didn't expect that this little thing could explode with such a large demand, and even some areas of Uruguay wanted this thing.

In addition to the Blanca Rein Machinery Factory, San Martin and La Plata also set up production lines, but they are mainly located in Blanca City, which is also a good opportunity for urban development.

Because it is necessary to have a certain learning ability, the surrounding brother cities have provided support to Blanca City, helping to recruit workers with junior high school level.

The short-term outbreak of demand in Blanca City was supported, which moved Saint Herse very much.

The main production capacity is located in Blanca City, and many factories cannot produce this small thing, after all, it still requires many processes.

"When can Argentina become a country of copycats, then Argentina's industrialization will be successful."

Saint Herse doesn't think there is a problem with copycats. The ability to copy is a very terrible ability in itself.

This is based on the industrial revolution and industrial foundation. There were Germany and Japan, and later New China. They are all processes of a country slowly advancing from backward to advanced.

At present, Argentina, except for a part of the industry, other industries do not even have the level of copycats.

This is also the reason why a certain major country in South Asia has been unable to achieve the independence of the military industry, that is, it cannot even reverse engineer the copycats, and it takes more than ten or twenty years to produce a third-generation main battle tank.

Even with the help of the Germans, one plane after another crashed.

Just like the sudden outbreak of briquette stove production, this briquette press has not yet appeared as a copycat product, and even mass-produced copycat products cannot be produced, or the cost is too high and there is no value.

In fact, the basic industry is not good, and it is quite sad that it cannot even copycat, which is quite sad.

Saint Herse came here this time to help the supporting factories improve the yield rate and production efficiency.

During this period, he led the civil servants and officials of the City Hall to comprehensively transform the management of the machinery factory and establish a sound production workflow.

He established professional production workshops for Rein Machinery Factory and completed the first mechanical production line in Blanca City, which is of great significance.

With a complete production line, from die-casting to welding, it is divided into more than a dozen processes, and the daily output has also begun to climb rapidly.

Next is mass replication and pasting.

At this point, Saint Herse breathed a sigh of relief.

"I didn't expect this little thing to be so troublesome."

Saint Herse watched as car after car of briquette presses were transported out and then transported by rail to all parts of the country, and even sold to Uruguay and southern Chile, which are also alternative products to natural gas.

Saint Herse promoted this little thing as omnipotent, capable of stir-frying, cooking, and heating, and cheap Thunder Mining coal was also spread all over the country.

While selling a large number of cheap coal, it also increased the living standards of residents.

Besides Salta's cheap coal, Thunder Mining also had a coal mine in Patagonia where they were stepping up mining efforts.

The low population and cold winter climate in southern Argentina meant they could use a little help.

The investment in upgrading and expanding the factory cost less than $400,000, and it's projected to generate a direct profit of $1.2 million while also creating 3,200 family jobs, with even greater indirect benefits.

This machinery factory will be further upgraded in the future to produce other products, such as parts for tractor and motorcycle factories.

If it develops well, it could even become independent from Thunder Industrial and produce its own machinery, such as loaders, small excavators, construction machinery, and dump trucks, all of which are promising areas.

Thunder Industrial's development speed hasn't been fast in the past two years, which Saint Hércules found somewhat unsatisfactory. This semi-independent research and development approach wasn't quite suitable for Argentina's current situation.

This was also Saint Hércules' overestimation of Argentina's current research and development capabilities. Even with the perspective of later generations, not being able to handle it was still a problem.

At this stage, relying on importing production lines was more reliable. Trucks, cars, and diesel engines were all being prepared for import, and even the acquisition of several American factories was being considered to drive the work in reverse.

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The first department store supermarket of the Blanca City State-Owned Department Store was located on Third District's 99th Avenue.

It will open in late May, covering an area of 2,000 square meters, with 1,000 square meters on the first floor.

Mayor Saint Hércules personally led a team to attend the opening ceremony of Sanders Department Store.

The shelves were already filled with domestically produced goods, various foods, beverages, imported electrical appliances, fruits, vegetables, meats, daily necessities, and even the in-demand coal briquette stoves, everything was available.

Ten cashiers and thirty shop assistants were recruited throughout the city, all women over 35 years old. A security team and three accountants were also formed.

Such a recruitment plan would definitely be scorned in later generations, but in Blanca City, it seemed perfectly normal.

Everyone knew that the mayor encouraged employment for women over 35, even if many people looked down on it.

Yang Guohua printed thousands of promotional leaflets and then asked the newly recruited shop assistants to distribute them.

Under Saint Hércules' guidance, female employees in uniform appeared in schools, factories, markets, and major intersections.

In fact, these older department store employees were the best of the best, with good figures and appearances, and a relatively outstanding temperament.

After all, Sanders Department Store paid very high wages.

They held a thick stack of leaflets, which contained information about the grand opening promotions and some discounted prices on goods.

They walked through the streets of the city, and passersby would receive a beautifully produced leaflet.

Such a promotional method was probably a first in Argentina.

In addition to manual promotion, Sanders Department Store also bought out advertising space in several newspapers in Blanca City, and even had radio advertisements.

This caused a great sensation in Blanca City. For a week, Sanders Department Store was packed every day. The trucks replenishing goods couldn't keep up, and Saint Hércules' stockpiled supplies sold very well.

It could create a profit of $20,000 for the city hall every day, which later slowly decreased.

Saint Hércules had specially built cold storage facilities for stockpiling goods, as many fruits needed refrigeration.

After looking at the weekly reports, he was also shocked by the profitability of Sanders Department Store.

"So running a supermarket really makes a lot of money."

Now was the era of department store boom. Seeing that this could make money, Saint Hércules thought about opening several supermarkets in Buenos Aires.

Blanca City had a capacity of at least 5 supermarkets, with one supermarket serving about 30,000 people. Although the profit here might not be as terrifying as the first one,

it could definitely create a stable market.

The capital had 2-3 million people, arranging 20 or more large supermarkets was not a problem.

Saint Hércules, who had been troubled by the integration of the domestic market, seemed to be able to solve it in this way.

He immediately began recruiting and preparing to replicate the model, opening several large supermarkets in the capital.

However, opening several supermarkets in major cities would almost saturate the market, and the subsequent ecological model could not be further expanded.

"Without enough population, there isn't enough market."

After Saint Hércules arranged enough management personnel, he didn't pay much attention to Sanders Department Store anymore.

The most important thing was always to increase the population and develop the industrial system.

The American population was ten times that of Argentina, so it could accommodate the development of a large number of department stores such as Walmart and Sears.

The blast furnace of the Hans Steel Plant was still under intense construction. Saint Hércules' suggestion to the construction company was to stop work when the temperature dropped below 5 degrees Celsius.

The requirements for the iron-smelting blast furnace were relatively high. Construction would start when the temperature was above 5 degrees Celsius to catch up with the schedule. After all, when the masonry construction was below 5 degrees Celsius, the cement mortar could not form strength.

The steelmaking, raw material yard, sintering and other units of the La Plata Steel Plant were also under construction simultaneously.

The coking plant had not stopped either. As long as the temperature did not drop below 5 degrees Celsius, construction would not stop.

Saint Hércules also provided them with good logistical support, coats, shoes, gloves, and warmth were all provided, and wages were all settled at 1.5 times the rate.

There was enough meat and vegetables, which greatly improved the workers' enthusiasm for construction.

Saint Hércules truly treated the construction of the Hans Steel Plant as if it were his own son.

Seizing the construction period and promoting progress.

Moreover, a blast furnace construction project team was specially formed, which was the elite among the elite.